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1,422 results for: Fungi

  1. Dark Power: Pigment seems to put radiation to good use

    The pigment melanin may enable certain fungi to convert dangerous radiation into usable energy.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Microbes

    Team spirit

    Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.

    By Susan Gaidos
  3. Computing

    Computing Evolution

    Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life.

    By Patrick Barry
  4. Ecosystems

    Biota Behaving Badly

    Members of an established ecosystem develop a sense of balance, usually permitting at least limited biodiversity and a stable structure. When interlopers arrive that aren’t responsive to the same environmental checks and balances, they can overrun the ecosystem, eliminating some members and quickly dominating others. Such bullying immigrants are known as invasive species—and they can […]

    By Science News
  5. Health & Medicine

    Nobel Prize in medicine given for HIV, HPV discoveries

    Three Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa

  6. Out of Thin Air

    Biologists dream of the day when they could engineer crops to make fertilizer out of the nitrogen in the air.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Health & Medicine

    Fungus produces cancer drug

    Several varieties of fungi that attack hazelnuts produce high quantities of the popular cancer drug paclitaxel.

    By Christen Brownlee

  8. Tadpole Slayer: Mystery epidemic imperils frogs

    An emerging protozoal disease has begun to trigger mass die-offs of frog tadpoles throughout much of the United States.

    By Janet Raloff
  9. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

    By Susan Gaidos

  10. Mushroom Boom: Hobby records show climate-change boost

    Mushrooms in England are starting to pop up earlier and staying around later than they used to, according to 55 years of amateur naturalists' records.

    By Susan Milius
  11. Paleontology

    Unexpected Archive: Mammoth hair yields ancient DNA

    Hair from ancient mammoths contains enough genetic material to permit reconstruction of parts of the animal's genome.

    By Sid Perkins

  12. Share Alike: Genes from bacteria found in animals

    Bacteria swap genes all the time, but it now appears that they can give their DNA to some animals as well.

    By Patrick Barry